Themed “innovative cooperation on AI standardization: empowering the building of China-ASEAN community with a shared future”, the ASEAN-Oriented Standardization Cooperation Forum was convened on August 27 in Nanning, South China’s Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region.

Wei Tao, Chairperson of the People’s Government of Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, Bai Qingyuan, Vice Minister of State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR), as well as representatives from administrative departments and enterprises of ASEAN countries and international organizations attended the forum.

China attaches great importance to the international cooperation on standardization. The ASEAN-Oriented Standardization Cooperation Forum has been held for three consecutive sessions, which serves as an important platform for the standardization cooperation and exchanges between China and ASEAN countries, said Bai Qingyuan. SAMR will take this forum as an opportunity to deepen the harmonization of standards systems with ASEAN countries, and facilitate trade and investment; deepen standards cooperation in emerging fields, lead innovation, and promote development; strengthen capacity building and people-to-people exchanges, enhance the overall level of regional standardization, and jointly create a more open, inclusive and beneficial regional standardization cooperation ecosystem, promoting the continuous expansion of trade scale and the deeper integration of industrial chains between the two parties.

At the forum, the expert committee under the China-ASEAN Standardization Cooperation and Exchange Center was established, an initiative on standardization supporting the sustainable development of AI was announced, the action plan on cultivating China-ASEAN standardization talent for automobiles was released, and other fruitful results were achieved.